Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Medical Association gathered in Dallas last week, selected as "Family Doctor of the Year" Dr. Chesley M. Martin, 70, native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
...They dropped three men back on him when he got a pass, stalled when they got the ball, but no trickery tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...
Powel was killed in an automobile accident on December 17, 1958, returning from Harvard to his home in Elgin, Ill. An honorary scholarship recipient, he had just been elected to the Lampoon...
Similarly, in Elgin, 111. an ex-con and Capone mobster named Rocco Pranno decided to cut himself in on the jukebox operations of young Ralph Kelly. To persuade Kelly of the wisdom of hiring him as "business adviser," Pranno drove him through the countryside with cement weights tied to Kelly's legs, threatening to drop him over a bridge. Committee investigators reported that Kelly's annual jukebox profit before Pranno was $16,000; afterward it dropped...
Fleming and Ellis played as advertised against the Cincinnati Royals, but Baylor sat adamantly on the bench in street clothes, watched as the Lakers dropped their fifth straight game. At game's end a little white boy expressed disappointment that Elgin had not played. Said Baylor: "Son, I'm a little disappointed myself...